Monday, June 15, 2015

Nundah Fire Station

Here is another of the old suburban fire stations that have been decommissioned and phased out of their original purpose. This one is at Nundah, and it has been absorbed into a new apartment complex - this is an artist's impression of the finished product.

Fires in the Nundah area are now responded to from the fire station at Hendra, pictured below. It is able to house the much larger and more modern appliances used by the fireys today, but it lacks the street appeal of the original Nundah station that was decommissioned in 1999.

(Photo: google.com.au)

The Nundah Fire Brigade was formed in 1916, originally storing its equipment at the Royal Hoteluntil a shed and bell tower were erected in Union St in 1917. Then the fire station
was built in 1936 to a design by Atkinson & Conrad using a
template shared with other stations including those still standing at Wynnum and Coorparoo (both also decommissioned). The two-storey building provided room for equipment on the ground floor and accommodation for the superintendent on the upper floor.